ARLINGTON, Va. — In a postseason in which the hits have been dirtier, the play has gotten more out of control and the suspensions have been more common (nine already after there was a total of seven suspensions in the entire 2011 postseason), everyone’s looking for answers.

People want the players to police themselves more in hopes that more respect on the ice will mean less players being forced off it.

On Tuesday, agent Allan Walsh tweeted the following:

“This has spiraled from out of control to total chaos. Do we really need a player to die on the ice for this insanity to stop?”

When asked after Wednesday’s practice about cleaning up the game, Bruins coachClaude Julien mentioned Walsh and noted that less criticism and more education could solve the problem.

“I read something about an agent, it was Allan Walsh made a comment about that stuff,” Julien said, “but they’re the ones that are representing these players. These players are all apart of the [NHL Players Association] and the fact is, I can tell you right now and I’ll say it again, there’s not a coach in this league, not one, that is going to tell his players to target somebody’s head.

“Concussions are a serious and sensitive thing and I think we all respect that, so anybody who thinks otherwise is totally wrong. ‘¦ Somewhere along the line everybody’s got to try and educate the players to be a little bit more careful that’s what we keep trying to do. There’s not a game in this world that is faster than ours right now. It’s always easy to criticize but it’s sometimes tough to make those split second decisions and sometimes it will happen and the guys knows and he regrets it and he apologizes and he’s sincere, but the damage is done. Somehow we’re all trying to figure out a way to minimize that and instead of criticizing and attacking that we should all be working together in order to make it better. I think if coaches, players, general managers, the organizations and the league ‘ if we all work together including the PA that’s the best way to resolve it.”